Sir Robert Cohan

Sir Robert Cohan

Sir Robert Cohan Founding Director Born in New York in 1925, Sir Robert Cohan, after seeing active service in WW2, trained at the Martha Graham School in his home city; he progressed quickly and joined the  Martha Graham Dance Company in autumn 1946. He quickly moved...
Richard Alston

Richard Alston

Richard Alston Choreographer | Guest Speaker ‘I was delighted to be asked to be Patron of Yorke Dance Project as I have fond memories of having worked together with Yolande only a short time ago. I wish her and all the dancers the very best with this programme – it...
Mark Anthony Turnage

Mark Anthony Turnage

Mark Anthony Turnage Composer | Guest Speaker A composer of international stature, Mark-Anthony Turnage is indisputably among the most significant creative figures to have emerged in British music of the last three decades. His first opera, Greek, established...
Philip Feeney

Philip Feeney

Philip Feeney Artistic Director British composer and pianist, Philip Feeney, studied composition at Cambridge, and at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He has composed extensively for dance, collaborating with many different and varied choreographers including...
Stephen Montague

Stephen Montague

Stephen Montague Composer | Guest Speaker Stephen Montague was born (1943 NY) and educated in the USA (Florida State and Ohio State Universities) coming to Europe first as a Fulbright Scholar (Warsaw, Poland, 1972-74), then to London where he began work with the...